Isaac pardee



tsts @anni @ffice ISAAC PARDEE, or VINELAND, NEW JERSEY, AssIGNon To HIMSELF AND AniAL corremos SAME PLAGE Lenen Pamela. 76,288, dans Marat 31, 1868.

'IMPRYEMENT 1N scUrrLE-Hos AND GARDENTRIMMBR.

TO ALL WHQM IT MAY CONAGERNT:

v.Be it knownthat I, ISAAC' PARDEE, v.of lVineland, in the county of Cumberland, and State ofNew Jersey,

have invented a newand useful Improvement in Studie-Hoe :and 'Garden-Trimmer; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, olear,and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.-v Y' nThe nature ofmy-intiention consists in-so forming vthe'scu-fle-hoe that it can 'heused as a trimmer-for trimming the borders of beds or platsalong the 'walks inY the garden, and also to. hoe-or cultivate the vegetables ,as desired, and this either adrawing orV 'pushing motion, as may. be'preferred,

'To enable others skilledinthe art t'o which it" apper'tains to make and use my invention, describe it as.

'follows,` iliz: I take a sheet of steel or any'other-suitable metaLofanysuitable thickness, say'about one-sixteenth of an t' inch', and from 4it I cut'out in any .convenient way, an' angular piece, A, figs. '1 and2, which piece may be of 'any desired angle andsize, all .the edgesof which I make'sharp.` I then attach said piece to thearms B, figs. 1 and 2, by' rivetsor screws. v These Apieces are' so formed that so many of them as come in contact withfthe piece C a'reparallel with each other, and apropervdistancc apart to admit the piece C-between'them, as seen fig; 1,- at B C B. V 'The piece Gis formed with a tang, which is 'driven or screwed i'nto the handle E, as seen at I), iig.` 2, and it extends out from the'handlein a line therewith, about two andl one-half (2f) inches, and from that point it extends at an angleof about forty-five degrees -for about two and al quarter (Zliuches, as seen at C', and`then` from that point marked Q,a'segment of a circle commences, which extends to and past the tang `b, to the n'oint Cl. This segmentis aboutthree-fourths of an inchbroad, and is struek'from the centre at a, and in this segment isa slot, c, also having@ for its centre. The arms B are connected to the piece C -hy a' rivet, as seen :at-a, tig. 2, the centre of this rivet heingthe ioint from which the segmentand its slot c is struck; This rivet is so fastened in itsfplace that the arms will swing freely on it. These arms B extend past the rivet tothe-exterior ofthe sadsegment, and ata point on them corresponding `with the slot c, there is a hole drilledv through 'them of -a diameter ,about equal tothe width of the slot. In these holes'is placed a screw, F, figs. 1 and 2, a thread being cut on it, at or near its end, d, anda corresponding thread being' out in the arm B next to d, and a shoulder being formed on said screw atthe opposite side of the opposite arm B, as seen at e, 'fig'. 1,

lit follows that if this thumb-screw istnrne'cl ifn the right direction'for'cibly, it will draw. towards each other stronglj; the arms B B, and betweenl them pinch' the piece 0,. and thus hold the arms rigidly in any desired position; but if this pinch just mentioned is not sniicient to hold them in 'thedesired position,'I form radial serrations on the sides of the segment C, and corresponding serrations ou the'insides of that'part of the arms whichcomes in contact with the segment.

I It will be.seeu from the foregoing that if I unscrew the thumbscrew, and move it to the Aend of theslot at C, I have the-plate A standing inA a eomiugdirection, and if I placeit at the point C"'the -plate A will stand from me, and, as will be seen, IA can place it atl any desired angle between the two points mentioned, or, if thought best, instead of the slot c, I cauhavea lseries 'of holesiu asegmental line corresponding with the centre of the segment, and then, when a change of directionof therplate A is desired, I take out the thumb-screw', and

place it in 'the hole which will 4givethe desired direction, and then screw it fast.

Having thusdesciibed nay-invention, what I claim, and desire to'secure by' Iretters Pateut,'is

' The combination ofthe angular plate A, arms BB, and p iece C, substantially asshown and described, and for l the purpose specified, and that whether with the slot e, or a. series of holesas described, in its stead,land whether "th 'th t the radial serrations mentionedQ, i W1 Op "v1 ou r l ISAAC. PARDEE.

'Witnessem JoHN M. SIMKINs,v JAMES' CHANGE. 

